The Labour Party has unveiled plans to phase out sow stalls and use subsidies to incentivise a move away from 'intensive factory farming' systems

Labour Party plans to move away from "intensive factory farming systems" has been labelled "too simplistic" by the pig industry.

The Labour Party has unveiled plans to use subsidies to incentivise a move away from "intensive factory farming" systems.

This week, the party published a 50-point draft policy document, ‘Animal Welfare For The Many, Not The Few,’ which will now go out for public consultation to inform the its post-Brexit animal welfare policy.

But the proposal to "design post-Brexit farm subsidies to move away from intensive factory farming and bad environmental practices" is of "potential concern" to the pig sector, given the range of systems deployed to produce, according to the National Pig Association (NPA).